Folding desk.



Nos27,91s. PATENIED' AUG. 7, 1906.

' L. & A. JENSEN.

FOLDING DESK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

LUDVIG JENSEN AND AXEL JENSEN, OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK;

FOLDING DESK.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, LUDVIG JENSEN and AXEL JENsEN, subjects of the King of Denmark, and residents of Copenhagen, Denmark, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Desks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a writing-desk capable of being easily erected and folded.

1 A form of accomplishment is shown in the accompanyng drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a perspective view of the writing-desk ready for use, and Fig. 2 a similar view of the folded writing-desk.

The two rear legs a are connected and mutually braced below by means of a bar I), and each of them is at the top connected by a main pieces, which forms the horizontal part of the writing-desk and serves as a receptacle for inkstands and similar articles.

To the main piece 0 is hinged a desk plate or lid (1, which when the writing-desk is unfolded is supported by the front legs f, the lid resting loosely on the upper ends of the legs.

2 5 The legs are connected and braced by a bar g.

One or more shelf-plates h are attached to the inner side of the rear legs by means of hinges k, and similar shelf-plates i are attached to the front legs likewise. These 0 shelf-plates are mutually connected two and two by means'of hinges Z, fixed on the under sides of the plates.

When the writing-desk is erected, these shelf-plates form a brace between front and rear legs, which are thereby kept in the correct distance from each other. The front legs f are of course so much shorter than the rear legs a that the desk-plate gets a suitable inclination, and the bottom shelf is -made so 4.0 much broader than the top shelf that the front legs get a somewhat slanting position, which makes the desk stand firmer.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I Application filed August 1,1905- Serial 1T0. 272.249.

Patented Aug. 7, 190 6.

This invention presents the advantage that when the desk is wanted no longer it may be folded together in such a manner that it takes up very little space and maybe rear standards, upper and lower folding members connected to the front and rear standards for permitting the front standards to fold back against the rear standards, the front standards being shorter than the rear standards, a stationary shelf part carried by the rear standards, and a desk-lid hinged to the stationary shelf and resting loosely on the upper ends of the front standards, substantlally as described.

2. A folding desk or the like comprising the front and rear standards, upper and lower shelves, each consisting of two parts hinged together at the center and to the front and rear standards at their outer edges, a stationary shelf part carried by the rear standards, and a desk-lid hinged to the stationary shelf and resting loosely on the upper ends of the front standards, the front standards being shorter than the rear standards, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUDVIG JENSEN. AXEL JENSEN. Witnesses:

MAGNUS JENsEN, ALBERT S. NroHELsoN. 

